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May your Pharoah Sanders LUCKY 13 change your year for the better!

I had no idea of this release! Damn shame it’s not on CD, or not that I can see. I asked Michael very specifically about that in person at the Library of a Congress in 2014 (after a panel talk he was on with Jason Moran and Lou Donaldson) — after he’d eluded to some live Hill thing when he was doing some press for Freddie Hubbard’s Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969). Michael said it was not some old(er) archival recording — but some larger live group thing recorded in the UK more recently (mostly with UK musicians, augmenting his core US quartet, iirc). Or if not UK, somewhere in Europe, or maybe Scandinavia (maybe Finland?) — but I’m thinking it was the UK. In any case, definitely not a Hill trio thing (which I would have loved to have heard).

Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray: New York Eye And Ear Control. ESP-Disk' / ZYX Music ESP 1016-2 [Germany 1992]

My Pharoah Sanders Mosaic set finally arrived after a three day trip to Columbus and back for some reason. And it's the lowest number I ever remember getting . . . #013. Which is in keeping with the unlucky year I'm having.

Ron Horton's A Prayer For Andrew is indeed a really nice album, haven't played it in a while but there was a time when I streamed it frequently...

Louis Hayes - Woody Shaw Quintet “Lausanne 1977” TCB cd Bass – Stafford James Drums – Louis Hayes Piano – Ronnie Mathews Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – René McLean Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Woody Shaw Recorded at Salle d’Epalinges, Lausanne, Switzerland on February 4, 1977

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Schubert - Violin Sonatas D.935, D.408, and Arpeggione

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I’m spinning the Japanese Acoustic Sounds series SHM-SACD of John Coltrane “Crescent,” UCGU-9077. For my system it’s the best digital version I own, I also own a reissue LP that sounds pretty darned good.

This is my reaction too. Even PoD, which I should know backwards the number of times I've heard it, reveals new delights every listen. Thanks, I didn't know of this. There's been a couple of very good UK bands playing Hill repertory recently, not yet recorded though.

Two gems

Nice. Arabesque put out some really good music while it was in operation.

Andrew Hill - Live at Montreux (Arista-Freedom, 1976)

Icehouse - Icehouse plays Flowers

Two important missing links in my Tapscott collection:

The remake is showing in the area all this upcoming week. Being fond of films set in NYC (blurb shows Denzel Washington on a subway), I may venture to watch it.

Billy Higgins - Bridgework (Contemporary, 1987)

ZIM Records ZM-1008 - Zoot Sims/Dick Nash Octet " Nashville" - rec. 1955 - Engineers: Ben Jordan & Jerry Pierce

Brunswick Records BL 54021 - The Tony Scott Quartet " Tony Scott In Hi-Fi" - rec. Sept. 1953

This very good album came out with little fanfare a couple years back-- unfortunately it's only available on a bespoke LP edition that may be out of print, but you can hear it on bandcamp and other streaming platforms: https://newvellerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-prayer-for-andrew As much as I listen to his 60s BNs, I just as often come back to the later small group albums, especially the three later BN dates and Dusk on Palmetto. I am still hoping we can get a recording of his trio with John Hebert & Eric McPherson. I have often wondered if this was the live AH release Michael Cuscuna had mentioned ca. 2009 before Blue Note stopped making CDs. There are a few other fascinating trio recordings out there:

I’d give my right pinky finger to see Brandon, Steve & Gerald Cleaver again. Saw them in December 2019. Maybe one day Cleaver will come back to NYC. Brandon & Steve are off to Europe today for 2 gigs. One in Antwerp tomorrow and the second in Amsterdam on Saturday.